Vibratory screen mounting



Jan. 3, 1956- F. R. GRUNER VIBRATORY SCREEN MOUNTING Original Filed Aug. 13, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet l Jan. 3, 1956 F. R. GRUNER 2,729,332 VIBRATORY SCREEN MOUNTING Original Filed Aug. 13, 1947 2 Sheets-Shee 2 United States Patent 7 2,729,332 VIBRATORY SCREEN MOUNTING r Application April 5, 1951,Serial No. 219,399 2 Claims. c1.2o9-s29 The present invention is concerned with an improved mounting for'isolating vibratory devices from their supporting structures. This application is a continuation of my fpe'nding application Serial No. 768,310, filed August 13,1947 and now'abandoned. g

More particularly, the invention concerns floor mountings for-vibratory devices of the type shown in C 8. Lincoln et al., Patent No. 2,l44,382, that is, of the type whichare vibrated bya mechanism for exerting f orces in ajstraight line through the center of gravity of the device, in a vertical plane.

Cablesuspension such as is shown in the Lincoln patent has-been successfully employed in the past, but a floor mounting'wou'ld be highly desirablein many cases to eliminate thene'cessity of providing the overhead support required for suspending the cable, Many types of floor mounting arrangements for screensof this type have been devised, but difficulties have been encountered in practice.' Many mounting arrangements have been compli cated and expensive, unsatisfactory in operation, or not sufiiciently durable or'reliable to give good service in the field. a r

' The principal advantage of the novel mounting arrangeinent of the, present invention is realized primarily during starting and stopping of the vibratory device, that is, during the period when a mechanism for exerting forces in a straight line throughthe center of gravity of the vibratorydevice is accelerated from no speed to normal operating speed and when decelerated from normal operating speed to no speed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved resilient mounting arrangement of simple, durable construction, cooperating by reason of its structural features with the specific features of the vibrating mechanism to provide for elfcient operation.

Another object concerns provision of a resilient mounting arrangement which will permit vibrations of large predetermined amplitudes in the desired direction with relation to the specific vibrating mechanism while maintaining the necessary stability and properly isolating the vibrating mechanismfrom the supporting structure.

Another object of the invention concerns the provision of a mounting arrangement involving resilient elements arranged to accommodate vibratory movement by de flection in shear planes parallel with the line in which the vibrating forces are applied to the vibrating body by the actuating mechanism, while supporting the weight of the body at least partly by compression.

Another feature of the invention concerns the provision for adjustable initial compression of'the resilient shear mounting elements in a direction transverse to the shear deflection planes. Other features of the invention reside in the construction and arrangement of the apparatus described hereinbelow with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: a I

Fig. 1 is a side view of a screen mounting arrangement according to the present invention; l

2,729,332 Patented Jan. 3, 1956 Fig. 2 is an end view of the structure shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side view to an enlarged scale of the mounting arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, viewed from the plane indicated by line III-III of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side view to an enlarged scale of a modified form of the mounting arrangement shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated and described in the drawing, a vibratable screen body 1 is provided with a suitable power driven vibrating mechanism 2 rigidly attached to body 1 for free vibration therewith, substantially as described in Lincoln Patent 2,144,382. The mechanism 2 is arranged to be driven by a belt drive 3 from a driving motor 4 as described in the Lincoln patent. The mechanism 2 may of course be any other suitable known mechanism mounted .on the body 1 and driven by suitable known driving means to generate periodic inertia force impulses in line with the center of gravity A of screen body 1 and mechanism 2, which force impulses tend to move the body and mechanism in a straight line path, of direction indicated by line AB.

In order to provide for movement of the body 1 with relation to its stationary base, suitable resilient mountings are provided as described hereinbelow.

The spaced parallel side plates 5 of body 1 are provided at spaced points with laterally projecting mounting flanges 6, or other suitable flat surface forming portions, havingflat surfaces 6' and 6" parallel to a common reference plane through line AB perpendicular to the side plates 5.

The floor or base frame 7 is to correspond with the points at which surfaces 6 and 6-on the body 1 are located, with plates, brackets, 'pads, pedestals,v or other suitable means 8 having fiat mounting surfaces 8 facing upwardly, and fiat mounting surfaces 8 facing downwardly, each such surface being parallel to a common reference plane inclined to the horizontal at an angle equivalent to that desired to be established between the path AB of vibratory movement of body 1 and the horizontal. Respectively between each of the surfaces6' and 8 and between each of the surfaces 6" and 8" are secured, as by bolts 15, a corresponding plurality of universally deflectable, resilient mounting elements 9 and 19, each respectively comprising a column or body 11 and 11' of elastically deformable rubber like composition, that is, vulcanized rubber or other suitable elastically. deformable material having the physical characteristics of vulcanized rubber, such as any of the many known synthetic rubbers and other rubber substitutes now in use. Each of the bodies of rubber 11 and 11' may take the form of a solid block or column as shown in Figs. 1 to 3, or may be divided parallel to its base by rigid metal plate inserts 111 vulcanized in the body of the composition, as shown in Fig. 4; and the rubber body 11 may be vulcanized or bonded to flat surfaces of a pair of attaching plates 12 and 13 and the rubber body 11" may be attached in a similar manner to plates 12 and 13. The attaching plates 12 and 13 will, in normal unstressed condition of the elastic resilient body 11, be held in spaced parallel relation by the connecting body of rubber. This form of mounting element, as shown in the drawing, will be termed, for convenience, an interplane shear mounting; and this term will be employed in this specification, and in the appended claims, with the following special definition: a body of elastically deformable material (rubber or the like) secured on opposite parallel faces to plane surfaces of a pair of relatively movable rigid elements, and so unrestrained laterally,

provided, at points spaced intermediate said plane surfaces, as to be defiectable in shear by opposite motion of said relatively movable elements indirections having a component in the plane of said surfaces.

t w ls s wsn hatsash m t n qmpriv it m u ing" 1 m a a 'd"1 9, win '(if properly'spaced with relati to 'the centerof gravity A'ofith supported mass in accordance with known'fprinciples) contribute to the siip 'oh of'b'ody 1 and 'mechanisnf'2 such that line A B and surfaces 6' and 6" will be parallel to the common deflect the inountings'9 and 19 a given amount by straight compression or tension Will be greater than that required to deform the mountings in shear by the same amount, this form of mounting arrangement is ideally suited to use with 'a driving motor and belt drive arranged at 90 to the path of motion A-'-B, because the variations in belt tension occurring during operation will cause very little deflection in directions perpendicular to the shear planes of the mountings.

- The mounting arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 can of course be constructed within the scope of the invention by reversing certain of the parts. Such a reversal.of'parts would merely involve providing side plates with brackets or other suitable means each having two parallel opposed surfaces and providing floor brackets or other means each having but one plate spaced intermedate the two parallel opposed surfaces on each of the side platebrackets. Suitable mounting elements identical to elements 9 and 19 could be respectively interposedbetween the two parallel surfaces of each of the side plate brackets and both sides of the intermediate plate of each of the fioor brackets.

The mode ofoperation of the present invention during acceleration and deceleration of the vibratory force exerting mechanism 2 may be illustrated by first understanding that a body free in space, such as a vibratable screen body 1, unless restrained in certain directions, has six degrees of freedom: (1) it can bob up and down, (2 move forward and backward, (3) sway sideways, and the rotational freedoms known under the technical names of (4) pitching abouta lateral axis, (5) rolling about a longitudinal axis, and ,(6) yawing or nosing about a ve rticalaxis In a single body each of the six degrees of freedom corresponds to a different natural frequency such that a condition of resonance occurs six distinct times at six different, critical speeds as the vibratory mechanism increases its speed from zero to the normal operating speed. This phenomenon can be observed in a variety of .resiliently mounted vibrating devices by noting the violent bouncing or irregular movement the vi bratable body is subjected to during starting and stopping of the vibrating mechanism. The term bouncing as used herein describes the violent irregular movement of an unrestrained resiliently mounted screen body as the vibrating mechanism goes through the six critical speeds corresponding to the six'natural frequencies referred to above. t I t In the past when it was desired to utilizerubber for resiliently 'supp'orting a screen body and a large predetep mined amplitude of the s'crecn body was required, on the o rde'r of one-half inch for example, the rubberportions ofthe mountings were severly stressedin tension due id the bouncing of the; screen body 'during the starting and stopping intervals; t Y \vas'inias'siveandheavy, as a screeh body usually is, such Where the body to be vibrated.

4 mountings were subject to premature failure and required frequentreplacement. H The mounting arrangement of the present invention avoids the destructive effects of the plurality of resonant conditions, or bouncing, referred to above, by restraining the motion of the screen body in certain directions. The most important ofthe'sekesonant conditions are those that (1) tend to cause the screen bpdyto bob up and down and those that'(4) tend to cause pitching about a lateral axis. An analysis of the present mounting a1",- rangement under such conditions, durin'g startingmnd stopping of the vabrating mechanism 2, is as follows:

(1) Bobbing up and down of screen body v(perpendicular to line A -B). On the'up paito'f'the cycle the rubber pads 11 ofmountings 19ra're in compression and thereby effectively prevent tension in the rubber pads 11 of mountings 9. On the down" part of the cycle the rubber pad 11 in each mounting 9 is in compression thereby effectively preventing tension in the rubbeif pads of mounting'1'9. i a (4)"Pitching about'a lateral axis (axis laterally perpendicular toline A--=B The'natural frequen'cybf the vibratory body or screen for thisltype'of mjotion is known as the torsional'rocking' frequency. As the "najtne implies, the vibratory body tends to rot; wh'en' the vibrating mechanism passes through the criticabspeed' correspondingto'the rocking frequency. The mounting arrang'ement "of the present invention is particularlyetfeq tive in preventing this type of'n otion'and fthereby completely avoids tension in any of the rubbei' pads; the reason is that'the rubber pads'of the mountings 19 of the end of the screen bodythat tends to rise ar'i'df. the rubber pads of the mounting 9 of the end of the screen body that tends to drop are 'compress ed in opposite directions with respect' to base frame '7; i f

'In' order to takefull "advantage of the basic features of .the form of the mounting arrangement shown in Figs. 1 to 3, a modifiedform of= tnounting arrangement has been devised which is illustrated'in Fig. 4: Since the arrangement of the mountings with relation to the screen body'andlvibrating mechanism is fully illustrated'in Figs. 1 to 3, Fig. '4 shows only detail viewsof a single mountg I v .4

The reference characters 108 and 108 correspond to 8 and 8qof Fig. 1. 106 and '106 correspond to 6 and 6 of Fig. '1'. In order to provide a mounting which is morereadily assemblable anddisassernblable, a'base plate 108 is provided with an abutment 114bo'rdering one edge. A movable abutment or clamping plate 115' with an'actuating screw 115' borders an' opposite edge of the plate 108. Inter-plane shearrnounting ele'nien't"109'is secured to plate 108 by clamping an attaching plate 112 between the fixed abutment 114an'd th'e'movable abut ment 115. In this arrangement it will be seen that attachment and detachment-of 'the mounting element" 109 with relation to plate 108 requires only the loosening and.tightening of the attachingbolt' 1157. The free end of mounting element 109, that is, its attaching plate 113 is secured to flange 106' and the side plate5 of-vibrated body 1.by any suitable known arrangement, shown as a clamping device very' similar to fixed and movable abutments115..and 114.

In the modified mounting of Fig. 4, it will be seen that additionaliresilient'mounting elements 119 having rubber bodies 121, are attached at their free or movable ends by attaching plate 123,, to the upper sur'face'106" offlange 106. The opposite face of the mounting element 119, that is, attaching plate 122, is clamped between anabutment 1 16and a clamping screw 116' which are mounted on a rigid flanged plate'117. Flanged plate 117 issecu ed to andextends from plate 108 in'flanking' relamq l ti lg element 109, flange 106 an'd mounting element 119 and has its flange in overhangingfparallelj amass!) waged. rel tion to surface 108'..of.bas'e plate 108. This rigid fiangedplate 117 of L;shaped cross section, provides a rigid stationary mounting for threaded screws 1.18 the ends of which, projecting through the flange of flanged plate 117, determine a mounting surface 118'. It will be seen that rotation of the screws 118 will advance and retract the surface 118 determined by their ends, and which determines the position of attaching plate 122 of mounting element 119, and that advancing the screws 118 in the direction of surface 108' will place the mounting elements 119 and 109 under compression. Screws 118 in threaded relation to flanged plate 117 as shown constitute an adjustable clamping device.

In order to preserve the utmost in durability of rubber mounting elements of the character shown in the drawing, it is desirable to have the stress vary between two values having the same algebraic signs rather than having the stress change in nature, as from compressive to tensile. Therefore, the modified mounting will, in use, he placed under compression by advancing the screws 118 toward plate 108 sufiiciently so the rubber bodies 121 and 111 of mounting elements 119 and 109 will both be under compressive stresses when the body 1 is supported in stable equilibrium, and the characteristics of the mounting elements will be so chosen that the deflection in shear of the elastically deformable material, caused by the full operative vibrational amplitude of the body 1 will not cause any substantial tensile stress in any part of the bodies 111 or 121. Any extraneous motion of the screen body 1 in a direction perpendicular to its designed path of motion will be effectively resisted by the opposed mounting elements 109 and 119.

The flanged plate 117 is detachably secured to an edge of plate 108, as by bolts 124. Therefore, it will be seen that the inter-plane shear mounting elements 109 and 119 may be readily exposed for inspection or replacement by removing the bolts 124 and loosening screws 116' and 118. Flanged plate 117 and plate 108 may be considered as together constituting a means forming a pair of opposed, spaced, parallel, mounting surfaces 108 and 118, between which the mounting flange 106 of the screen body 1 extends, and with which it is connected by a pair of inter-plane shear mounting elements 109 and 119.

It will be noted that the mounting element 109 constitutes a column of resilient material 111 attached at its base to a fixed plate 108 and extending therefrom along an axis in a vertical plane perpendicular to surface 108'. The axis of the column of rubber material 111 is inclined toward the vertical with reference to a line normal to the mounting surface 108. Thus, the weight of the body 1 and mechanism 2, acting vertically downward on the free end of column of rubber 111 will act to place the entire column 111 under compression and shear stresses so as to avoid any appreciable tensioning of the rubber body. The column of rubber material 121 of mounting 119 has its base fixed with relation to the stationary base and extends along an axis in the same vertical plane as that of the column of rubber material 111 inclining in the direction of the horizontal, and intersecting the axis of the column of rubber material 111 at a point approximately midway between surfaces 118' and 108'. Flanges 106, and the body 1 to which they are attached are therefore yieldingly supported between the inter-plane shear mounting elements 109 and 119, which tend to stabilize the body for motion in a plane containing line AB and a horizontal line intersecting same. The angular relationship of the axis of rubber columns 111 and 121 establishes a construction in which the dead load or dead weight of screen body 1, mechanism 2 and any wor 'ng load supported by body 1 tends to deflect columns 111 and 121 in such a way that column 121, as well as 111, will be stressed in compression normally to surfaces 106" and 118' as a result of shear deflection of both columns 111 and 121 downwardly parallel to the surface 108.

While specific mechanism embodying the invention has been described and ilustrated hereinabove, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details of the particular embodiments described and illustrated, but includes such modifications and equivalents as may readily occur to those persons skilled in the art to which it appertains, within the scope of the appended claims. I v

It is claimed and desired to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A vibrating screen of the type in which a resiliently mounted screen body is caused during normal operation to have a vibratory motion along a straight line in a plane inclined to the horizontal and in which large undesired forces produced at resonant speeds during the starting and stopping operations tend to vibrate the screen body in a generally vertical direction, comprising, a screen body, power driven means for imparting period inertia forces to said screen body along a straight line inclined to the horizontal, a plurality of rigid plates attached to said screen body having upwardly and downwardly facing surfaces arranged in parallel relation to said plane and said straight line, a stationary base member, mounting means on said base member having upwardly facing mounting surfaces respectively arranged beneath said downwardly facing surfaces of said plates in parallel relation thereto and downwardly facing mounting surfaces respectively arranged above said upwardly facing surfaces of said plates in parallel relation thereto, a first group of elastically deformable interplane shear mountings respectively connecting said upwardly facing mounting surfaces and said plates which yield resiliently in compression to support the load of said screen body and which yield resiliently in shear to resist the motion imparted to said screen body along said straight line, and a second group of elastically deformable interplane shear mountings respectively connecting said downwardly facing surfaces and said plates which yield resiliently in shear to resist the motion imparted to said screen body along said straight line during normal operation of the vibrating screen and which yield resiliently in compression to resist the vertical motion of the screen body caused by large undesired vertical forces produced at resonant speeds during starting and stopping of the vibrating screen and thereby prevents said large vertical forces from excessively stressing said first group of mountings in tension.

2. A vibrating screen of the type in which a resiliently mounted screen body member is caused during normal operation to have a vibratory motion along a straight line in a plane inclined to the horizontal and in which large undesired forces produced at resonant speeds during the starting and stopping operations tend to vibrate the screen body member in a generally vertical direction, comprising, a screen body member, power driven means for imparting period inertia forces to said screen body member along a straight line inclined to the horizontal, a stationary base member, a plurality of rigid plates attached to one of said members and arranged in parallel relation to said plane and said straight line, mounting means attached to the other of said members having upwardly facing mounting surfaces respectively arranged beneath said plates in parallel relation thereto and downwardly facing mounting surfaces respectively arranged above said plates in parallel relation thereto, a first group of elastically deformable interplane shear mountings respectively connecting said upwardly facing mounting surfaces and said plates which yield resiliently in shear to resist the motion imparted to said screen body along said straight line, and a second group of elastically deformable interplane shear mountings respectively connecting said downwardly facing surfaces and said plates which yield resiliently in shear to resist the motion imparted to said screen body along said straight line, the mountings of one of said groups being stressed in compression to resist the vertical motion of the screen body member caused by large unde- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Schmigit Sept. 8, 1931 Deister Feb. 15, 1936 Anderson June 9, 1936 Wurzbaph et al Feb. 23, 1937 8 Neal et al. Nov. 16, 1937 Parks Nov. 19, 1940 Hull Oct. 21, 1941 Strube June 2, 1942 Pol z Mar. 2, 1943 Busse Sept. 7, 1943 Tyler Aug. 15, 1944 OTHER REFERENCES Mechanical Engr. May 1937, pages 345-349. 

